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Best automation tools

Ranked by a formula we publish in full, not by who paid. 5 tools considered.

  1. 1
    n8n

    Workflow automation you can self-host and extend with real code.

    Open source · 14 upvotes

  2. 2
    Pipedream

    Workflows where every step can just be a function you wrote.

    Freemium · 10 upvotes

  3. 3
    Make

    Visual automations with branching, loops and error handling that hold up.

    Freemium · 9 upvotes

  4. 4
    Trigger.dev

    Long-running background jobs in your own codebase, with retries that work.

    Freemium · 8 upvotes

  5. 5
    Zapier

    Connect two apps that were never going to integrate on their own.

    Freemium · 8 upvotes

This order comes from the published formula. Paid placement never enters it, the ranking code cannot import the payments code, and the build fails if it does.